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Elizabethanize
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English
Alternative forms
en elizabethanize Elizabethanise
Etymology
From en Elizabethan ize.
Verb
To make more Elizabethan.
en 1923 Theatre Arts - Volume 7 Sheldon Cheney; Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs 210 Then after a fortnight's holiday the Players started to Elizabethanize their building.
en 1955 Shakespeare Quarterly 89 Concerning the revival of the 16th-century stage, Bridges Adams once said to me that whilst it was possible to Elizabethanize your stage, it was impossible to Elizabethanize your audience.
en 2015 Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare Robert Rentoul Reed Jr. 143 Moreover, the tendency to “Elizabethanize” the play Hamlet has made many of us think of its milieu as closely contemporary with the later years of Elizabeth I's reign.